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After Captain Elliott, the able and impulsive Member for Lanark,

had declared that he would never desert Mr. Micawber,- Mr. Gideon Murray very appropriately complained that the reply of the Leader of the House had been a bitter attack on members of his own Party. When the division was taken the Government secured a majority of 193 (288-95). The result was, of course, to be expected ; nevertheless the debate and the nature of the defence were an omen, and a very important one.

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